Last Film You Watched

[Daz1878]

Sunset song - wonderful as always

I read all of A Scots Quair as a boy, and it's stayed with me ever since - especially Sunset Song. I remember discussing the trilogy with my late uncle, who was a big fan of it. When this film was announced, I was very wary of it (as we tend to be with films of books we really like), but Davies really nailed it. Agyness Deyn is so good in the lead role, and I don't think she got enough credit for her performance.

 

[Daz1878]

Easily in my all time top three live bands.

Are you in the right thread here mate?

 

[COYBL25]

Are you in the right thread here mate?

Oops

 

[get-your-coat-on]

Excalibur (1981)

Watched this for the first time in many years and it's just as fantastic as I remember. Brilliant dreamlike visuals, epic classical soundtrack, loads of familiar Brit and Irish actors, loads of gruesome battles, hippy mysticism, a completely bonkers Welsh Merlin and Helen Mirren at her smoking hot peak as randy evil sorceress Morgana....

Just stunning and the best filmic interpretation of Arthurian legend put to film.

It's boss the way the titular legendary blade is lit in a weird Kryptonite green as well.

Haven't seen this! Right the kids are getting lashed off Peppa Pig

 

[rylojr]

Spetters! (!980)

Dutch madman director Paul Verhoeven with one of his most controversial and challenging pictures - mixing hyper sexuality, graphic gore and violence and weird Judeo-christian imagery. Some full-on scenes and a weird tone to it but lots of his trademark unflinching visual style is in here.
Plus the late great Rutger Hauer is in it briefly. Work a look if you want to see how twisted Verhoeven's Dutch language cinema was before he came to Hollywood.

(PS that's his voice on the trailer screaming "SPETTERS!")

 

[rylojr]

Haven't seen this! Right the kids are getting lashed off Peppa Pig

Captain Picard is in it! Still never had hair in the early 80's!!

 

[get-your-coat-on]

Spetters! (!980)

Dutch madman director Paul Verhoeven with one of his most controversial and challenging pictures - mixing hyper sexuality, graphic gore and violence and weird Judeo-christian imagery. Some full-on scenes and a weird tone to it but lots of his trademark unflinching visual style is in here.
Plus the late great Rutger Hauer is in it briefly. Work a look if you want to see how twisted Verhoeven's Dutch language cinema was before he came to Hollywood.

(PS that's his voice on the trailer screaming "SPETTERS!")

Looks like another gem you've dropped here.

That Warriors/Grease style chase scene has peaked my interest...

 

[urquattro]

Gumball Rally ..... I remember seeing that on telly as a kid in the early 80s. There was a driver who raced his car on only 2 wheels.... before the Cannonball Run with Burt and Roger Moore and Jackie Chan I believe. Loved those movies as a kid, especially DUN-DUN- DUUUUUNNN! CAPTAIN CHAOS!

 

[rylojr]

Looks like another gem you've dropped here.

That Warriors/Grease style chase scene has peaked my interest...

It's a good story but definitely not a date film..... proper disturbing especially the part you mention.....

 

[longers]

Pretty rare for a film to live up to the level of hype this has got but it managed it

 

[Toast]

The Untouchables is on Film 4 later.
Cracker that.

 

[rylojr]

Never actually seen this before in the full length. Some acts on it I'm familiar with, many not. It's a brilliant time capsule of the late 60's and the last real optimism of that mythological decade when everything was for the taking, everyone was together and music was so much better, maaaaannn. Goes without saying that the soundtrack is unparalleled.

Boss intro to it when the stage is being put together by hippies and workmen smoking weed and then gradually the crowd starts building up.

Hendrix just owns it at the end.

FAR OUT BAYBEEEEE

 

[SuperTimCahill]

28 Weeks Later

I really liked parts of the movie, but some literally unbelievably stupid stuff dragged it down in the end.

For example

Spoiler

when the kids fell down the same set of stairs, but for some reason they ended up so far away from eachother then couldn't hear when they were shouting. What the hell was that?

Was about to give it a 7 for a while, but in the end it's nothing more than a 5/10

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Thor. Bit crap.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

28 Weeks Later

I really liked parts of the movie, but some literally unbelievably stupid stuff dragged it down in the end.

For example

Spoiler

when the kids fell down the same set of stairs, but for some reason they ended up so far away from eachother then couldn't hear when they were shouting. What the hell was that?

Was about to give it a 7 for a while, but in the end it's nothing more than a 5/10

Haven’t watched either for years but always remember thinking the sequel felt a bit rushed. I know it came out a few years after the first, so not sure if maybe the first didn’t really gain popularity until it came out on DVD or what, but the sequel just had that “let’s get it out while people are still talking about it” feel.